Philosophic, I totally empathize with you. I'm fairly new to Ld living, but I have had my first two DILds in the last week or so after a solid month of RCs, reading, dream journal ing, etc. Before I had them I felt it was hard to say "I'm dreaming!" when I truly felt I was in waking life. Then, in my second DILD, before i became lucid, I was in a puzzling (but not flying elephant bizarre) situation (couldn't pick up some things I'd dropped), and I thought in the dream, "oh, this is one of those times you're supposed to check to see if you're dreaming..." and I was instantly lucid! I was shocked as I became lucid, I really didn't think I was dreaming beforehand. For me, it seems the magic word now is dreaming, I don't even need to RC (and haven't yet!, either time). So the important thing is to force yourself to do a serious (really try hard to convince yourself, don't make any assumptions) evaluation of reality, at random times and in response to situations that work for you (surprising, bizarre, startling, etc). Developing this habit will eventually seep into your dreams and you will become lucid. Again for me, it seemed less "fake" to question myself like "where an I? Why am I here? How did I get here? Why do I think I'm awake?". But now that I see the power of the word "dream(ing)" to get me lucid, I have no problem at all starting out with "I'm dreaming!". I say "I'm dreaming as much as I can during the day now, with feeling, and incorporate the "where? Why? How? " questions after that.
Once you make the first few Lucids you can analyze what scenarios, thoughts and words work for you
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